SCFZ 10th Anniversary Poll: Ballots

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the SCFZ 10th Anniversary Poll is now open! this is a poll to identify our community's favourite films from cinema history. the rules:

• you can vote for up to 100 films
• short films and tv movies are eligible, tv shows and tv series are not
• your ballot can be ranked in up to five tiers of equal size (actually, they can be unequal, but only if lower-ranked tiers are at least as big as higher ones, so it's fine to do a 33-33-34 breakdown, or a 5-20-20-20-20, but not a 17-16-14-16, or 21-19-14-12 or 11-10-14 say)
• scoring as follows: 5 tiers 6-5-4-3-2.... 4 tiers: 5.5-4.5-3.5-2.5... 3 tiers: 5-4-3... 2 tiers: 5-3.... unranked: 4
• if you really want to give the most weight to favourites, it's best to use five tiers, and if you want to give a lot of films average points, one or two tiers would better achieve that
• important: *please* format each film title on your ballot as follows:

English Title (Director, Year)


so like this:

The Karate Dog (Bob Clark, 2004)

• please do not list the country of production, alternate titles (unless the film would otherwise be hard to identify), or titles in the original language, unless the original language title is the most commonly used title of the film (so Ikiru and La Dolce Vita would be the right titles to use, but 하녀 or طعم گیلاس... or Welt am Draht would not). and i'm anti-capitalist and usually do not use capital letters, but for this poll, i'd appreciate it if people would capitalize titles in the traditional way, so i can copy/paste from ballots without needing to standardize all the capitalization myself

also please do not use any diacritics or accents in film or director names, no matter how much that offends your sense of correctness -- the problem is, if i search for "joao cesar monteiro", and someone has typed "joão césar monteiro", my search won't find the duplicate, so i might miss some votes (thanks for the reminder brian!)

i really need everyone to type up their ballots in the same way so i can identify repeated votes (by finding repeated text strings). if anyone does not format their ballot in this way, i have to do it, so it makes me do a lot of work on a poll that is already a lot of work

if i forgot anything let me know!

deadline: up for discussion, i'll say april 30, 2024 for now, but if people think that's too soon i don't mind when we close the voting

[brian d]

diacritical marks are undesirable, right? so joao cesar monteiro instead of joão césar monteiro?

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diacritical marks are undesirable, right? so joao cesar monteiro instead of joão césar monteiro?

yes, thank you! i updated the original post

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i'm sure i'll edit this a bit later, but first draft of my ballot:


A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969)
Manoel’s Destinies (Raul Ruiz, 1984)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
Nostos: Il Ritorno (Franco Piavoli, 1989)
The Wonderful Country (Robert Parrish, 1959)
The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood (Michael Jones/Andy Jones, 1986)
The Toth Family (Zoltan Fabri, 1969)
The Gunfighter (Henry King, 1950)
Kanchana Sita (Govindan Aravindan, 1978)
Ride the Pink Horse (Robert Montgomery, 1947)
The Mongols (Parviz Kimiavi, 1973)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)
Man from Del Rio (Harry Horner, 1956)
3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)
The Good Fairy (William Wyler, 1935)
Ulzana’s Raid (Robert Aldrich, 1972)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton/John Blystone, 1923)
Opening Night (John Cassavetes, 1977)

Filantropica (Nae Caranfil, 2002)
Reality (Quentin Dupieux, 2014)
The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2009)
Electra, My Love (Miklos Jancso, 1974)
Death of Yazdgerd (Bahram Beizai, 1982)
Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton, 1924)
The Burglar (Paul Wendkos, 1957)
Fire in Castilla (Jose Val del Omar, 1961)
Moving (Shinji Somai, 1993)
L’Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)
The Naked Dawn (Edgar Ulmer, 1955)
Woman They Almost Lynched (Allan Dwan, 1953)
The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943)
Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
The Brick and the Mirror (Ebrahim Golestan, 1964)
Mad About Music (Norman Taurog, 1938)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
Die Puppe (Ernest Lubitsch, 1919)
Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur, 1946)
Day of the Outlaw (Andre de Toth, 1959)

Spring Parade (Henry Koster, 1940)
Woman on the Run (Norman Foster, 1950)
The Valley of the Bees (Frantisek Vlacil, 1968)
Elegy (Zoltan Huszarik, 1966)
No Name on the Bullet (Jack Arnold, 1959)
The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966)
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Raul Ruiz, 1978)
My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
Lucky Star (Frank Borzage, 1929)
Glissements Progressifs de Plaisir (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1974)
Piece Touchee (Martin Arnold, 1990)
Transit (Christian Petzold, 2018)
Smiley Face (Gregg Araki, 2007)
Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (Eldar Shengalaya, 1983)
The Raid (Hugo Fregonese, 1954)
Throw Momma From The Train (Danny DeVito, 1987)
The Dove’s Lost Necklace (Nacer Khemir, 1991)
Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2005)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)
In a Lonely Place (NIcholas Ray, 1950)

Man on the Roof (Bo Widerberg, 1976)
Southern Comfort (Walter Hill, 1981)
Lost in Munich (Petr Zelenka, 2015)
His Butler’s Sister (Frank Borzage, 1943)
Sleep, My Love (Douglas Sirk, 1948)
Nocturne (Edwin Marin, 1946)
Stranger on Horseback (Jacques Tourneur, 1955)
Ms 45 (Abel Ferrara, 1981)
Birds, Orphans and Fools (Juraj Jakubisko, 1969)
Tlayucan (Luis Alcoriza, 1962)
A Comedia de Deus (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 1995)
Miracle Mile (Steve de Jarnatt, 1988)
You Take Care Now (Ann Marie Fleming, 1989)
Charley Varrick (Don Siegel, 1973)
The Big Combo (Joseph H Lewis, 1955)
Maldone (Jean Gremillon, 1928)
Khroustaliov, My Car! (Alexei German, 1998)
Rosetta (Dardenne Brothers, 1999)
Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambety, 1992)
Why Does Herr R Run Amok (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970)

Tuvalu (Veit Helmer, 1999)
21-87 (Arthur Lipsett, 1963)
A Brighter Summer Day (Ed Yang, 1991)
L’Ange (Patrick Bokanowski, 1982)
Innocent Sorcerers (Andrzej Wajda, 1960)
Iron Island (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2005)
Mandala (Im Kwon-taek, 1981)
Murder By Contract (Irving Lerner, 1958)
The Asthenic Syndrome (Kira Muratova, 1989)
Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka, 1937)
The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi, 1995)
Water, Wind, Dust (Amir Naderi, 1989)
Hi Diddle Diddle (Andrew Stone, 1943)
Norte, The End of History (Lav Diaz, 2013)
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1999)
Sanam (Rafi Pitts, 2000)
Champagne for Caesar (Richard Whorf, 1950)
Good Time (Safdie Brothers, 2017)
Daisies (Very Chytilova, 1966)
Noises Off… (Peter Bogdanovich, 1992)

[brian d]

Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton, John Blystone, 1923)
Finis Terrae (Jean Epstein, 1929)
M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)
The Masseurs and a Woman (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1938)
Subida al cielo (Luis Bunuel, 1952)
Ajantrik (Ritwik Ghatak, 1958)
Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha, 1958)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)
Le Bonheur (Anges Varda, 1965)
A Story Written with Water (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1965)
Dragon Inn (King Hu, 1967)
Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1969)
A River Called Titash (Ritwik Ghatak, 1973)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
Duvidha (Mani Kaul, 1975)
Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf (Leonardo Favio, 1975)
The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway, 1982)
A Flor do Mar (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 1986)
The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)

Seven Chances (Buster Keaton, 1925)
The Seashell and the Clergyman (Germaine Dulac, 1928)
The Pearl (Henri d'Ursel, 1929)
Ornamental Hairpin (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)
La Tempestaire (Jean Epstein, 1947)
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Bunuel, 1955)
Water-Mirror of Granada (Jose Val del Omar, 1955)
The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak, 1960)
Ditirambo (Gonzalo Suarez, 1969)
Eros Plus Massacre (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1969)
Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1969)
A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1971)
The Other Side of the Underneath (Jane Arden, 1972)
Solaris (Andrzej Zulawski, 1972)
Silvestre (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 1981)
My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (Andrzej Zulawski, 1989)
A Comedia de Deus (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 1997)
The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette, 2003)
Come and Go (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 2003)
Light Is Calling (Bill Morrison, 2004)

Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein, 1928)
Carnival in Flanders (Jacques Feyder, 1935)
Los olvidados (Luis Bunuel, 1950)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
Fire in Castilla (Jose Val del Omar, 1961)
Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964)
Subarnarekha (Ritwik Ghatak, 1965)
The Affair (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1967)
The Man Who Lies (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1968)
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1969)
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1971)
Nathalie Granger (Marguerite Duras, 1972)
Red Psalm (Miklos Jancso, 1972)
The Fate of Lee Khan (King Hu, 1973)
Arabian Nights (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1974)
Love on the Ground (Jacques Rivette, 1984)
Drowning by Numbers (Peter Greenaway, 1988)
La Belle noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991)
Prospero's Books (Peter Greenaway, 1991)

Nosferatu (FW Murnau, 1922)
Steamboat Bill, Jr (Buster Keaton, 1928)
The Lighthouse Keepers (Jean Gremillon, 1929)
Viridiana (Luis Bunuel, 1961)
Now! (Santiago Alvarez, 1965)
Cul-du-Sac (Roman Polanski, 1966)
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev, 1967)
Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil, 1967)
Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindo, 1968)
Uski Roti (Mani Kaul, 1970)
American Postcard (Gabor Body, 1975)
Noroit (Jacques Rivette, 1976)
Merry-Go-Round (Jacques Rivette, 1980)
Trails (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 1978)
The Devil (Andrzej Zulawski, 1988)
The Hips of JW (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 1997)
Train of Shadows (Jose Luis Guerin, 1997)
Fidelity (Andrzej Zulawski, 2000)
Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar, 2002)
Nightwatching (Peter Greenaway, 2007)

Variety (EA Dupont, 1925)
Asphalt (Joe May, 1929)
City Girl (FW Murnau, 1930)
Limite (Mario Peixoto, 1931)
Dainah la metisse (Jean Gremillon, 1932)
Strange Voyage (Fernando Fernan Gomez, 1964)
Enchanted Isles (Carlos Vilardebo, 1965)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
The Romance of Aniceto and Francisca (Leonardo Favio, 1967)
The Hour of the Furnaces (Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, 1968)
Pirosmani (Giorgi Shengelaia, 1969)
Fruit of Paradise (Vera Chytilova, 1970)
A Bee in the Rain (Fernando Lopes, 1972)
Letter from the Wife (Purnendu Patri, 1972)
Electra, My Love (Miklos Jancso, 1974)
Jaime (Antonio Reis, 1974)
Benilde, or the Virgin Mother (Manoel de Oliveira, 1975)
Lothringen! (Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet, 1994)
Gosford Park (Robert Altman, 2001)
Goltzius and the Pelican Company (Peter Greenaway, 2012)

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Tentative list... I didn't limit director duplicates because some directors I just love a lot of their films specifically, but I may tweak this to allow for more breadth later.

Underground (Anthony Asquith, 1928)
The Cameraman (Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick, 1928)
Harriet Craig (Vincent Sherman, 1950)
Innocent Sorcerers (Andrzej Wajda, 1960)
Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda, 1965)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Destroy She Said (Marguerite Duras, 1969)
F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)
Jeanne Dielman (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
Agatha and the Limitless Readings (Marguerite Duras, 1981)
L’amour Braque (Andrzej Zulawski, 1985)
Matewan (John Sayles, 1987)
A Summer’s Tale (Eric Rohmer, 1996)
The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette, 2003)
The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2005)
The Time That Remains (Elia Suleiman, 2009)
The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr, 2011)
Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
Bait (Mark Jenkin, 2019)

Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith, 1929)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, Alexander Hamid, 1943)
At Land (Maya Deren, 1944)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (Jacques Tati, 1953)
Tiga Dara (Usmar Ismail, 1956)
The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957)
Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda, 1962)
The Silence (Ingmar Bergman, 1963)
Dillinger is Dead (Marco Ferrari, 1969)
Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kumel, 1971)
The Third Part of the Night (Andrzej Zulawski, 1971)
That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel, 1977)
Full Moon in Paris (Eric Rohmer, 1984)
Repentance (Tengiz Abuladze, 1987)
Secret Defense (Jacques Rivette, 1998)

L’Age D’or (Luis Bunel, 1930)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945)
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
The Browning Version (Anthony Asquith, 1951)
The Blazing Sun (Youssef Chahine, 1954)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
The Good Girls (Claude Chabrol, 1960)
Zazie Dans Le Metro (Louis Malle, 1960)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1960)
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1963)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)
The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May, 1972)
The Dupes (Tawfiq Saleh, 1973)
Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey, 1976)
Le Navire Night (Marguerite Duras, 1979)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985)
Up, Down, Fragile (Jacques Rivette, 1995)
Almayer’s Folly (Chantal Akerman, 2011)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-Soo, 2015)

Ella Cinders (Alfred E. Green, 1926)
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
Holiday (George Cukor, 1938)
The Third Lover (Claude Chabrol, 1962)
Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
Falling Leaves (Otar Iosseliani, 1965)
Petulia (Richard Lester, 1968)
Serail (Edoardo De Gregorio, 1976)
Heaven’s Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980)
Lost in America (Albert Brooks, 1985)
Smooth Talk (Joyce Chopra, 1985)
Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan, 1986)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar, 1988)
Another Girl, Another Planet (Michael Almereyda, 1992)
Living in Oblivion (Tom Dicillo, 1995)
Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2009)
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
Yuni (Kamila Andini, 2021)
Tar (Todd Fields, 2022)

The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927)
A Woman’s Face (George Cukor, 1941)
Afrique 50 (Rene Vautier, 1950)
Sudden Fear (David Miller, 1952)
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955)
Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
L’immortelle (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1963)
Targets (Peter Boganovich, 1968)
Du Cote D’orouet (Jacques Rozier, 1971)
Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
Katie Tippel (Paul Verhoeven, 1975)
The Last Supper (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1975)
Modern Romance (Albert Brooks, 1981)
A Tale from the Past (Dhmiter Anagnosti, 1987)
Om Dar-B-Dar (Kamal Swaroop, 1988)
La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991)
Noises Off (Peter Bogdanovich, 1992)
Casa De Los Babys (John Sayles, 2003)
Fay Grim (Hal Hartley, 2006)
Diamantino (Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, 2018)

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Final List


unranked

in chronological order


Until They Get Me (Frank Borzage, 1917)
Heart o’ the Hills (Sidney Franklin/Joseph De Grasse, 1919)
The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh, 1924)
Melodie des Herzens (Hanns Schwarz, 1929)
Night Nurse (William A. Wellman, 1931)
Anna and Elizabeth (Frank Wysbar, 1933)
Policeman (Tomu Uchida, 1933)
Torch Singer (Alexander Hall/George Somnes, 1933)
Heinz im Mond (Robert Adolf Stemmle, 1934)
Mister Cinders (Friedrich Zelnik, 1934)

Final Accord (Detlef Sierck, 1936)
Swing Time (George Stevens, 1936)
Condottieri (Werner Klingler/Luis Trenker, 1937)
I Love You Again (Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke, 1940)
Michelangelo (Curt Oertel, 1940)
Mr. Bug Goes to Town (Dave Fleischer, 1941)
Born to Kill (Robert Wise, 1947)
Manon (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1949)
Pacific 231 (Jean Mitry, 1949)
Verspieltes Leben (Kurt Meisel, 1949)

Merry-Go-Round (Zoltan Fabri, 1956)
The Girl from Flanders (Helmut Kautner, 1956)
Kisses (Yasuzo Masumura, 1957)
Monpti (Helmut Kautner, 1957)
Masters of the Congo Jungle (Henry Brandt/Heinz Sielmann, 1958)
The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa, 1958)
The Travelling Ruffian (Masahiro Makino, 1958)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Ben-Hur (William Wyler, 1959)
Love Letter (Seijun Suzuki, 1959)

The Head (Victor Trivas, 1959)
Moderato Cantabile (Peter Brook, 1960)
Homicidal (William Castle, 1961)
The Taste of Violence (Robert Hossein, 1961)
A Bagful of Fleas (Vera Chytilova, 1962)
She and He (Susumu Hani, 1963)
Flora on the Sand (Ko Nakahira, 1964)
Holiday in St. Tropez (Ernst Hofbauer, 1964)
The River Line (Rudolf Jugert, 1964)
Walking the Streets of Moscow (Georgiy Daneliya, 1964)

Carmen from Kawachi (Seijun Suzuki, 1965)
Das Madchen mit dem Mini (Paul Milan, 1965)
The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds (Bert Williams, 1965)
Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1967)
Hang ’em High (Ted Post, 1968)
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love (Susumu Hani, 1968)
The Griller (George Moorse, 1968)
Vulkan der hollischen Triebe (Peter Hauser, 1968)
Goto, Island of Love (Walerian Borowczyk, 1969)
Rabbit in the Pit (Roger Fritz, 1969)

Young Billy Young (Burt Kennedy, 1969)
Road to Salina Georges Lautner, 1970)
The Pacifist (Miklos Jancso, 1970)
Le Mans (Lee H. Katzin, 1971)
Underground Again (Laure Guggenheim, 1971)
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (Shunya Ito, 1973)
Yaadon Ki Baaraat (Nasir Hussain, 1973)
Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market (Noboru Tanaka, 1974)
Touched in the Head (Jacques Doillon, 1974)
The Story of Sin (Walerian Borowczyk, 1975)

Monika und die Sechzehnjahrigen (Charly Steinberger, 1976)
Melody in Love (Hubert Frank, 1978)
Angel Guts: Red Classroom (Chusei Sone, 1979)
Zoom In: Rape Apartments (Naosuke Kurosawa, 1980)
Eyewitness (Peter Yates, 1981)
Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)
Shuffle (Sogo Ishii, 1981)
Das zweite Gesicht (Dominik Graf, 1982)
Breathless (Jim McBride, 1983)
Staying Alive (Sylvester Stallone, 1983)

Reckless (James Foley, 1984)
The Man from Majorca (Bo Widerberg, 1984)
Alpha City (Eckhart Schmidt, 1985)
American Flyers (John Badham, 1985)
Phenomena (Dario Argento, 1985)
Teen Wolf (Rod Daniel, 1985)
Raw Deal (John Irvin, 1986)
The Red Spectacles (Mamoru Oshii, 1987)
As Tears Goy By (Kar-wai Wong, 1988)
Top Model (Joe D'Amato, 1988)

Two Moon Junction (Zalman King, 1988)
Batman (Tim Burton, 1989)
Dead Calm (Phillip Noyce, 1989)
The Master of Shiatsu (Sogo Ishii, 1989)
Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992)
The Lover (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1992)
The Tune (Bill Plympton, 1992)
Achterbahn der Gefuhle (Josef Kluger, 1995)
Cutthroat Island (Renny Harlin, 1995)
First Knight (Jerry Zucker, 1995)

Sudden Death (Peter Hyams, 1995)
Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995)
Jingle all the Way (Brian Levant, 1996)
Blessing Bell (SABU, 2002)
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, 2003)
Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004)
The Weeping Meadow (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 2004)
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Hayao Miyazaki, 2008)
The Sky Crawlers (Mamoru Oshii, 2008)
Beats Being Dead (Christian Petzold, 2010)

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breakdown

1910s: 2
1920s: 2
1930s: 9
1940s: 7
1950s: 11
1960s: 20
1970s: 12
1980s: 21
1990s: 9
2000s: 6
2010s: 1

USA: 33
Germany: 27
Japan: 21
France: 15
Italy: 9
and many others...

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i think this may not be the most recent scfz top 100 ballots thread (i couldn't find a more recent one though), but maybe it will help some people here get a head start on a new ballot, without needing to type everything up all over again:

https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=552

and since i may do this myself, i wanted to say: i don't mind if people look over other ballots, and let that influence their own somewhat. so if you like five different hong sang-soo or yasujiro ozu or eric rohmer films roughly equally, and want to vote for one or two of them, there's nothing wrong, imo, with choosing to vote for those films that appear on other ballots. otherwise i think some scfz favorite directors might fare worse than they probably should. that said, i would feel weird about people actively campaigning for votes, or colluding to elevate a film in the rankings -- luckily that's never happened here, and i'm sure it won't, but i remember it did happen on mubi with that film karl always makes fun of that i've never seen.

[rischka]

i think that is the last one! ty very helpful i will get to work asap

looking at the other lists now. i could definitely do some strategic voting

cool that so many of us are still here from the other poll (:

sally better get back here need her input!!

[rischka]

i'm so tired. maybe i can use my 50 from last year

i shall cop out and post my ballot from last year

omg rasmus we need your list too

[wba]

Ha, I did it!!!!
I finished my list.

[rischka]

ok i have several tabs open and gonna sit here til i finish this...

[rischka]

5 tiers of 20

The Parallel Street (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)
Ticket of No Return (Ulrike Ottinger, 1979)
India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975)
News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)
At Sea (Peter Hutton, 2007)
Manoel's Destinies (Raul Ruiz, 1984)
The Cameraman (Buster Keaton, 1928)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)
Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg, 1931)
The Love Eterne (Li Han-Hsiang, 1963)
Recollections of the Yellow House (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 1989)
Guide (Vijay Anand, 1965)
Mandala (Im Kwon-Taek, 1981)
Mr. Shosuke Ohara (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1949)
Mind of Clay (Mani Kaul, 1985)
Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943)
Under the Bridges (Helmut Kautner, 1946)
Rouge (Stanley Kwan, 1987)
Green Snake (Tsui Hark, 1993)

Kummatty (Govindan Aravindan, 1979)
Panic (Julien Duvivier, 1946)
Wagon Master (John Ford, 1950)
Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1951)
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
Lucky Star (Frank Borzage, 1929)
Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1967) *
Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974)
A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1971)
There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk, 1956)
Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1996)
In the White City (Alain Tanner, 1983)
Day of the Outlaw (Andre de Toth, 1959)
Pirosmani (Giorgi Shengelaia, 1969)
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (Kihachi Okamoto, 1963)
Pom Poko (Isao Takahata, 1994)
A Hero Never Dies (Johnnie To, 1998)
One Way Passage (Tay Garnett, 1932)
Duvidha (Mani Kaul, 1973)
Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf (Leonardo Favio, 1975)

Benilde, or the Virgin Mother (Manoel de Oliviera, 1975)
In a Lonely Place (Nicolas Ray, 1950)
Extraordinary Stories (Mariano Llinas, 2008)
My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (Johnnie To/Wai Ka-Fai, 2002)
The Mad Fox (Tomu Uchida, 1962)
The Congress Dances (Erik Charell, 1931)
The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943)
El (Luis Bunuel, 1953)
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains and the Seacoast (Nobuhiko Obayashi 1986)
Melo (Alain Resnais, 1986)
Rio, 100 Degrees F (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1955)
Blues in the Night (Anatole Litvak, 1941)
Specter of the Rose (Ben Hecht, 1946)
Milady and the Musketeers (Vittorio Cottafavi, 1952)
The New Babylon (Grigori Kozintsev/Leonid Trauberg, 1929)
Alyonka (Boris Barnet, 1962)
The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (Yurii Illienko, 1968)
My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
I by Day, You by Night (Ludwig Berger, 1932)
The Shadow of the Strongman (Julio Bracho, 1960)

The Golem: How He Came into the World (Paul Wegener/Karl Boese, 1920)
Toute Une Nuit (Chantal Akerman, 1982) **
Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Sadao Yamanaka, 1935)
Turumba (Kidlat Tahimik, 1981)
The Other One (Roberto Gavaldon, 1946)
A Good Lad (Boris Barnet, 1942)
The Outlaw and His Wife (Victor Sjostrom, 1918)
Faithful Heart (Jean Epstein, 1923) ***
Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
Hovering Over the Water (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 1986)
Tenchu! (Hideo Gosha, 1969)
Pyaasa (Guru Dutt, 1957)
Another Sky (Gavin Lambert, 1954)
My Way Home (Miklos Jancso, 1965)
Everybody's Woman (Max Ophuls, 1934)
The Kidnapping (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1934)
The Wolves (Kaneto Shindo, 1955)
Kukuli (Luis Figueroa/Eulogio Nishiyama, 1961)
Anne of the Indies (Jacques Tourneur, 1951)
Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kumel, 1971)

His Motorbike, Her Island (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1986)
Dil Se...(Mani Ratnam, 1998)
Dirty Ho (Lau Kar-leung, 1979)
Last Hurrah for Chivalry (John Woo, 1979)
Romance in a Minor Key (Helmut Kautner, 1943)
The Mouth Agape (Maurice Pialat, 1974)
Love In the Time of Twilight (Tsui Hark, 1995)
Tih Minh (Louis Feuillade, 1918)
Rue de l'Estrapade (Jacques Backer, 1953) ****
Bandits of Orgosolo (Vittorio de Seta, 1961)
A Star Athlete (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1937)
The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk, 1957)
It's Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, 1955)
Eastern Condors (Sammo Hung, 1987)
Tlayucan (Luis Alcoriza, 1962)
Dainah la Metisse (Jean Gremillon, 1932) *****
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961) ******
The Naked Dawn (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1955)
The River Fuefuki (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1960)
The Wildcat (Ernst Lubitsch, 1921)

2- 1910s
6- 1920s
10- 1930s
11- 1940s
17- 1950s
18- 1960s
13- 1970s
13- 1980s
6- 1990s
4- 2000s

that's right no films post 2008 bc it takes at least 15 years for a film to mature to true greatness imho

some titles aren't in english at letterboxd, i marked those w an asterisk (aside from the epstein which reverted to french title there). also 'scattered clouds' the most common title of that naruse, is listed as 'two in the shadow' but since i saw it in someone else's list i decided to keep their title of choice. and 'dainah the mixture' just seems wrong

multiple entries: akerman, monteiro, shimizu, kaul, kautner, barnet, lubitsch, ford, sirk, obayashi, tsui and to. i'm not going to look at this again or i'll want to change everything!! now i guess i better start rating for DtC :p

[greennui]

I've trimmed my top 500 to a top 250 so far, very hard...

[ofrene]

not sure if it'll be able to do it by the end of the month, but will try...

[wba]

I've trimmed my top 500 to a top 250 so far, very hard...

Yeah, it's hard. I have about 2000 favorites, but I've been doing similar lists a lot over the past 15 years, so one gets used to trimming down again and again.

[flip]

not sure if it'll be able to do it by the end of the month, but will try...

the deadline isn't strict, i'd rather get ballots from everyone than rush out the results. if anyone needs more time, just let me know how long you need

[sally]

are we getting the year from letterboxd or imdb? there's a lot of variation between the two for some films

[Searchlike]

I barely watch movies anymore, but I would love to participate in this for old times' sake.

Don't know when i'll have a list ready, though. Definitely before the 30th.

[flip]

are we getting the year from letterboxd or imdb? there's a lot of variation between the two for some films

it really doesn't matter too much, because i don't use the year when looking for duplicate votes, but i always include the year when posting the final results, so when people don't include the year i have to look it up myself. so don't stress about it, use whatever source you like!

[---]

5 tiers of 20

Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004)
But I'm a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit, 1999)
Gigantic (Sebastian Schipper, 1999)
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer, 1987)
Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976)
They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948)
Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1990)
You Take Care Now (Ann Marie Fleming, 1989)
Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
Small Change (Francois Truffaut, 1976)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occassionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)
Origins of the 21st Century (Jean-Luc Godard, 2000)
Travelling Circus (Viet Linh, 1988)
Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958)
PlayTime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Blood of the Condor (Jorge Sanjines, 1969)
News From Home (Chantal Akerman, 1976)
Soft Fiction (Chick Strand, 1979)
Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)

Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer, 1984)
Downhill Racer (Michael Ritchie, 1969)
Faust (Alexander Sokurov, 2011)
Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier, 2011)
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
Chilly Scenes of Winter (Joan Micklin Silver, 1979)
Shadows in Paradise (Aki Kaurismaki, 1986)
Adaptation. (Spike Jonze, 2002)
Man Follows Birds (Ali Khamraev, 1975)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
31/75: Asylum (Kurt Kren, 1975)
Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973)
Fucking Amal (Lukas Moodysson, 1998)
The Cruise (Bennett Miller, 1998)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates, 1973)
The Private Life of a Cat (Alexander Hammid & Maya Deren, 1946)
Kontroll (Nimrod Antal, 2003)
Il Sorpasso (Dino Risi, 1962)
The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927)

The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)
The Gunfighter (Henry King, 1950)
Rehearsals for Retirement (Phil Solomon, 2007)
Young Torless (Volker Schlondorff, 1966)
Under the Bridges (Helmut Kautner, 1946)
The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2013)
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)
Frank's Cock (Mike Hoolboom, 1994)
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (Kathleen Hepburn & Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, 2019)
Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
Esthappan (G. Aravindan, 1980)
Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper, 1980)
There Once Was a Singing Blackbird (Otar Iosseliani, 1970)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
Walking the Streets of Moscow (Georgiy Daneliya, 1964)
Muscle Beach (Joseph Strick, 1948)
Have Dreams, Will Travel (Brad Isaacs, 2007)
Crazed Fruit (Ko Nakahira, 1956)

Skin, Skin (Mikko Niskanen, 1966)
Chan Is Missing (Wayne Wang, 1982)
The Coward (Satyajit Ray, 1965)
Dream Story (Saul Levine, 2001)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)
I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini, 1953)
The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa, 1960)
Alone in the Wilderness (Dick Proenneke, 2004)
Limite (Mario Peixoto, 1931)
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961)
Petite Maman (Celine Sciamma, 2021)
Billy Madison (Tamra Davis, 1995)
S.F.W. (Jefery Levy, 1994)
This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, 2019)
I Snuck Off the Slave Ship (Lonnie Holley & Cyrus Moussavi, 2019)
All the Crows in the World (Tang Yi, 2021)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling, 1982)
Meantime (Mike Leigh, 1983)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)

Reality Bites (Ben Stiller, 1994)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, 2004)
Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Winter Vacation (Li Hongqi, 2010)
The True Story of Jesse James (Nicholas Ray, 1957)
The Great White Silence (Herbert Ponting, 1922)
Neighbors (Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline, 1920)
Transit (Christian Petzold, 2018)
Following the Sun (Mikhail Kalik, 1961)
Lost Book Found (Jem Cohen, 1996)
Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai, 1995)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway, 1989)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttman, 1927)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
Breaking News (Johnnie To, 2004)
Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-Liang, 1992)
Rosetta (Jean Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, 1999)
The Wedding Singer (Frank Coraci, 1998)
A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith, 1929)

[Silga]

Final list

Ranked in two tiers

Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
Fargo (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 1996)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
Affliction (Paul Schrader, 1997)
Spencer (Pablo Larrain, 2021)
The Big Lebowski (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 1998)
L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
Blues in the Night (Anatole Litvak, 1941)
Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski, 2010)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Robert Ellis Miller, 1968)
The Odd Couple (Gene Saks, 1968)
The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993)
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990)
The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018)
Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970)
Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976)
The Man Who Wasn't There (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2001)
The Reflecting Skin (Philip Ridley, 1990)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2007)
Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton, 1996)
From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann, 1953)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)
The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman, 1998)
Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 2012)
JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991)
La Cienaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001)


Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambety, 1992)
Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986)
Klute (Alan J. Pakula, 1971)
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Paul Newman, 1972)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982)
Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)
The Grey Fox (Phillip Borsos, 1982)
The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin, 1940)
Subway (Luc Besson, 1985)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, 2013)
Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973)
Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
Anna Karenina (Joe Wright, 2012)
I... For Icarus (Henri Verneuil, 1979)
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
The Harder They Fall (Mark Robson, 1956)
La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964)
The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet, 1964)
To Die For (Gus Van Sant, 1995)
Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004)
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
The Big Blue (Luc Besson, 1988)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991)
Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder, 1957)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959)
Taking Off (Milos Forman, 1971)
Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
Fail Safe (Sidney Lumet, 1964)
Streets of Fire (Walter Hill, 1984)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
Vox Lux (Brady Corbet, 2019)
Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944)
Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader, 1992)
Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963)
The Swimmer (Frank Perry, 1968)
Fat City (John Huston, 1972)

[Searchlike]

I barely watch movies anymore, but I would love to participate in this for old times' sake.

Don't know when i'll have a list ready, though. Definitely before the 30th.

Gave this a try, but it's no use...
Had fun reading everyone's lists so far.

It's been fun being part of this community. Take care, everyone

[flip]

Gave this a try, but it's no use...

no obligation of course, but it would be cool to see your list -- there's lots of time!

[Mauries]

5 tiers of 20 (might change it a bit later):

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)
Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)
Road (Alan Clarke, 1987)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
The Browning Version (Anthony Asquith, 1951)
Disintegration Loop 1.1. (William Basinski, 2001)
News From Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)
La Libertad (Lisandro Alonso, 2001)
Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964)
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
There’s Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk, 1956)
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961)
Stage Door (Gregory La Cava, 1937)
The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986)
A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli, 1958)
Un Homme Qui Dort (Bernard Queysanne, 1974)
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini, 1966)

At Sea (Peter Hutton, 2007)
Die Parallelstrasse (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)
Day Of the Outlaw (Andre de Toth, 1959)
Bandits of Orgosolo (Vittorio de Seta, 1961)
Remorques (Jean Gremillon, 1941)
Picnic At Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
An Inn At Osaka (Heinosuke Gosho, 1954)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch, 1946)
There Once Was A Singing Blackbird (Otar Iosseliani, 1970)
Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937)
Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick, 2015)
Pirosmani (Giorgi Shengelaia, 1969)
Menilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1926)
Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
Girlfriends (Claudia Weill, 1978)
Nowhere (Gregg Araki, 1997)
Manhunter (Michael Mann, 1986)
All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer, 1987)

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2003)
Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016)
Alone in the Wilderness (Proenneke, Swerer, Swerer, 2004)
August in the Water (Gakuryu Ishii, 1995)
From the East (Chantal Akerman, 1993)
Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet, 1981)
One Way Passage (Tay Garnett, 1932)
In Comparison (Harun Farocki, 2009)
Good Time (Safdie Brothers, 2017)
A Brighter Summer Day (Ed Yang, 1991)
Fox and his Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975)
The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway, 1982)
The Stone Wedding (Mircea Veroiu, Dan Pița, 1973)
Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil, 1967)
The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray, 1952)
Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee, 1993)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Under The Bridges (Helmut Kautner, 1946)
Extraordinary Stories (Mariano Llinás, 2008)
Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton, 1924)

The Gleaners & I (Agnes Varda, 2000)
Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)
The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr, 2011)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
The Long Farewell (Kira Muratova, 1971)
The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936)
Repeated Absences (Guy Gilles, 1972)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)
Eaux d’artifice (Kenneth Anger, 1953)
Martin Cries (Jonathan Vinel, 2017)
Love (Vlatko Gilic, 1972)
Autumn Leaves (Robert Aldrich, 1956)
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
The Swimmer (Frank Perry, 1968)
The Structure of Crystal (Krzysztof Zanussi, 1969)
Capriccio (Zoltán Huszárik, 1970)
Meet Me In St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
People on Sunday (Edgar G. Ulmer Fred Zinnemann Robert Siodmak, 1930)

The Wolf House (Cristóbal León Joaquín Cociña, 2018)
Carlito’s Way (Brian De Palma, 1993)
Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara, 1998)
A Cottage On Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith, 1929)
Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
Where is the Friend’s House (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
An American Tail (Don Bluth, 1986)
Way of a Gaucho (Jacques Tourneur, 1952)
Stemple Pass (James Benning, 2012)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
Ishtar (Elaine May, 1987)
Western (Valeska Grisebach, 2017)
A Real Young Girl (Catherine Breillat, 1976)
Pictures of the Old World (Dušan Hanák, 1972)
Sweet Smell of Succes (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935)
Consuming Spirits (Chris Sullivan, 2012)
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (Pedro Costa, 2001)
Mind of Clay (Mani Kaul, 1985)

list on letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/mjoy/list/top-10 ... ite-films/

[sally]

my ballot, unranked


The Mill (Alfred Machin, 1909)
The Modern Girl (Eduard Schnedler-Sorensen, 1912)
Fantomas (Louis Feuillade, 1913)
The Precipice (Pyotr Chardynin, 1913)
Germinal (Albert Capellani, 1913)
Silent Witnesses (Yevgeni Bauer, 1914)
Blue Blood (Nino Oxilia, 1914)
The Coward (Reginald Barker, 1915)
Malombra (Carmine Gallone, 1917)
The Torture of Silence (Abel Gance, 1917)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)
The Wildcat (Ernst Lubitsch, 1921)
Shattered (Lupu Pick, 1921)
Backstairs (Leopold Jessner/Paul Leni, 1921)
Nosferatu (FW Murnau, 1922)
Os Lobos (Rino Lupo, 1923)
The Burning Crucible (Ivan Mosjoukine, 1923)
The Gallery of Monsters (Jaque Catelain, 1924)
He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjostrom, 1924)
The Bear's Wedding (Konstantin Eggert/Vladimir Gardin, 1925)
By the Law (Lev Kuleshov, 1926)
Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown, 1926)
Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927)
The Devious Path (GW Pabst, 1928)
West of Zanzibar (Tod Browning, 1928)
Finis Terrae (Jean Epstein, 1929)
The Lighthouse Keepers (Jean Gremillon, 1929)
Fraulein Else (Paul Czinner, 1929)
Limite (Mario Peixoto, 1931)
Outskirts (Boris Barnet, 1933)
The Kidnapping (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1934)
The Gypsy Baron (Karl Hartl, 1935)
Mark of the Vampire (Tod Browning, 1935)
The Devil-Doll (Tod Browning, 1936)
Let's Make a Dream (Sacha Guitry, 1936)
Green Fields (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1937)
The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
The Postmaster (Gustav Ucicky, 1940)
Ornamental Hairpin (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)
The Way You Wanted Me (Teuvo Tulio, 1944)
The Banquet (Hasse Ekman, 1948)
Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)
The Red Badge of Courage (John Huston, 1951)
The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir, 1952)
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
The Ogre of Athens (Nikos Koundouros, 1956)
Pyaasa (Guru Dutt, 1957)
Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur, 1957)
Ajantrik (Ritwik Ghatak, 1958)
Messalina (Vittorio Cottafavi, 1960)
Fire in Castilla (Jose Val del Omar, 1961)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
The Executioner (Luis Garcia Berlanga, 1963)
Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini, 1966)
Bullets Don't Come Back (Nikos Foskolos, 1967)
Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil, 1967)
The Plea (Tengiz Abuladze, 1967)
The Night of Counting the Years (Shadi Abdel Salam, 1969)
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1969)
Othon (Jean-Marie Straub/Daniele Huillet, 1970)
Hope (Yilmaz Guney, 1970)
From the Notebook of... (Robert Beavers, 1972)
The Stone Wedding (Mircea Veroiu/Dan Pita, 1973)
The Hourglass Sanatorium (Wojciech Jerzy Has, 1973)
Duvidha (Mani Kaul, 1973)
Lancelot of the Lake (Robert Bresson, 1974)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
Femmes femmes (Paul Vecchiali, 1974)
India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975)
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)
The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer, 1976)
Satan's Brew (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976)
Riddles of the Sphinx (Laura Mulvey/Peter Wollen, 1977)
The Dancing Hawk (Grzegorz Krolikiewicz, 1978)
The All-Around Reduced Personality: Redupers (Helke Sander, 1978)
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Raul Ruiz, 1978)
A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (Peter Greenaway, 1979)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Ticket of No Return (Ulrike Ottinger, 1979)
Esthappan (Govindan Aravindan, 1980)
Francisca (Manoel de Oliveira, 1981)
Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)
The Right Way (Peter Fischli/David Weiss, 1983)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
Shadows in Paradise (Aki Kaurismaki, 1986)
The Black Tower (John Smith, 1987)
Satantango (Bela Tarr, 1994)
The Enclosed Valley (Jean-Claude Rousseau, 1995)
Sepio (Frans van de Staak, 1997)
Train of Shadows (Jose Luis Guerin, 1997)
Hush! (Viktor Kossakovsky, 2003)
Come and Go (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 2003)
Wolff Von Amerongen: Did He Commit Bankruptcy Offences? (Gerhard Benedikt Friedl, 2004)
Melancholia (Lav Diaz, 2008)
Finisterrae (Sergio Caballero, 2010)
Hard to Be a God (Aleksey German Sr, 2013)
Phoenix (Christian Petzold, 2014)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-Soo, 2015)
Classical Period (Ted Fendt, 2018)

[rischka]

it's here!!

[sally]

how do you pick an ozu or a ford, i gave up

[greennui]

I've trimmed my top 500 to a top 250 so far, very hard...

175 now!

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

My top 100 for the entire history of cinema, that is, 1895–1959 (lol). I did 3 sets of 20 favourites (10 USA & 10 Non-USA, taking a page from Angel), followed by 20 Expressive Esoterica selections and 20 Comfort Food movies. No director duplicates except for 2 Dreyer and, uh, 5 Lubitsch (lol).

Suspense. (Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber, 1913)
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
Hold Your Man (Sam Wood, 1933)
Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz, 1933)
Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy, 1942)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
They Were Expendable (John Ford, 1945)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin, 1947)
Anne of the Indies (Jacques Tourneur, 1951)
Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli, 1956)
Pierrette’s Escapades (Alice Guy-Blache, 1900)
Different from the Others (Richard Oswald, 1919)
The Oyster Princess (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine, 1920)
Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
Bitter Rice (Giuseppe De Santis, 1949)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
French Cancan (Jean Renoir, 1955)
Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)

The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter, 1903)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (D.W. Griffith, 1912)
One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
One Way Passage (Tay Garnett, 1932)
Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks, 1941)
The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943)
Identity Unknown (Walter Colmes, 1945)
The Man from Planet X (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1951)
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955)
Tennessee’s Partner (Allan Dwan, 1955)
The Flying Train (unknown director, 1902)
The Fall of Troy (Giovanni Pastrone and Luigi Romano Borgnetto, 1911)
The Golem: How He Came into the World (Paul Wegener and Carl Boese, 1920)
Mirages of Paris (Fyodor Otsep, 1933)
Wife! Be Like A Rose! (Mikio Naruse, 1935)
Four Steps in the Clouds (Alessandro Blasetti, 1942)
Carnival of Sinners (Maurice Tourneur, 1943)
Escape to France (Mario Soldati, 1948)
Jour de Fete (Jacques Tati, 1949)
All the World’s Memory (Alain Resnais, 1956)

Panorama View, Street Car Motor Room (Billy Bitzer, 1904)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (Harold M. Shaw, 1912)
The High Sign (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1921)
So This Is Paris (Ernst Lubitsch, 1926)
Liberty (Leo McCarey, 1929)
Jewel Robbery (William Dieterle, 1932)
Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor, 1935)
Fireworks (Kenneth Anger, 1947)
Salt of the Earth (Herbert J. Biberman, 1954)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Joan of Arc (Georges Melies, 1900)
Madame DuBarry (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)
Arabesque (Germaine Dulac, 1929)
The Congress Dances (Erik Charell, 1931)
I’ll Give a Million (Mario Camerini, 1935)
Spare Time (Humphrey Jennings, 1939)
Went the Day Well? (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1942)
Port of Flowers (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1943)
The Ball at the Anjo House (Kozaburo Yoshimura, 1947)
Love Letter (Kinuyo Tanaka, 1953)

Max Speaks English (Max Linder, 1914)
Satan’s Rhapsody (Nina Oxilia, 1917)
All Night Long (Harry Edwards, 1924)
Peter Pan (Herbert Brenon, 1924)
The Belle of Broadway (Harry O. Hoyt, 1926)
Night Nurse (William A. Wellman, 1931)
Blessed Event (Roy Del Ruth, 1932)
Melody Cruise (Mark Sandrich, 1933)
Branded a Coward (Sam Newfield, 1935)
Girls of the Road (Nick Grinde, 1940)
The Blood of Jesus (Spencer Williams, 1941)
I Wake Up Screaming (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1941)
The Silver Bullet (Joseph H. Lewis, 1942)
Border Patrol (Lesley Selander, 1943)
Suspense (Frank Tuttle, 1946)
Hellfire (R.G. Springsteen, 1949)
A Lion Is in the Streets (Raoul Walsh, 1953)
Dawn at Socorro (George Sherman, 1954)
Theodora, Slave Empress (Riccardo Freda, 1954)
Cellbound (Tex Avery, 1955)

Flower Fairy (Gaston Velle, 1905)
Chess Fever (Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mykola Shpykovskyi, 1925)
The Patsy (King Vidor, 1928)
Desert Nights (William Nigh, 1929)
She Done Him Wrong (Lowell Sherman, 1933)
One-Horse Farmers (Gus Meins, 1934)
The Raven (Lew Landers, 1935)
The Prisoner of Zenda (John Cromwell, 1937)
Mad About Music (Norman Taurog, 1938)
Under Western Stars (Joseph Kane, 1938)
Nancy Drew… Reporter (William Clemens, 1939)
Cobra Woman (Robert Siodmak, 1944)
Voodoo Man (William Beaudine, 1944)
Thrill of a Romance (Richard Thorpe, 1945)
The Happiest Days of Your Life (Frank Launder, 1950)
Operation: Rabbit (Chuck Jones, 1952)
I Love Melvin (Don Weis, 1953)
The Giant Claw (Fred F. Sears, 1957)
Bell, Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958)
The Wasp Woman (Roger Corman, 1959)